Clark goes on to explain that the people who collected this data—sorry, “scraped” this data—did so by using a feature designed to help new users find their friends on the platform.
“This feature was designed to help people easily find their friends to connect with on our services using their contact lists,” Clark explains.
The contact importer feature allowed new users to upload their contact lists and match those numbers against the numbers stored on people’s profiles. But like most of Facebook’s best features, the company left it wide open to abuse by hackers.
“Effectively, the attacker created an address book with every phone number on the planet and then asked Facebook if his ’friends’ are on Facebook,” security expert Mikko Hypponen explained in a tweet.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/88awzp/facebook-says-its-your-fault-that-hackers-got-half-a-billion-user-phone-numbers
“This feature was designed to help people easily find their friends to connect with on our services using their contact lists,” Clark explains.
The contact importer feature allowed new users to upload their contact lists and match those numbers against the numbers stored on people’s profiles. But like most of Facebook’s best features, the company left it wide open to abuse by hackers.
“Effectively, the attacker created an address book with every phone number on the planet and then asked Facebook if his ’friends’ are on Facebook,” security expert Mikko Hypponen explained in a tweet.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/88awzp/facebook-says-its-your-fault-that-hackers-got-half-a-billion-user-phone-numbers
Vice
Facebook Says It’s Your Fault That Hackers Got Half a Billion User Phone Numbers
A database containing the stolen phone numbers of more than half a billion Facebook users is being freely traded online.
Інтерв'ю Романа Ратушного на початку домашнього арешту: погано працюючий браслет, небажання займатись політикою
Depo.ua
На дроті: Як живе під домашнім арештом активіст Роман Ратушний
Активіст і захистник Протасового Яру Роман Ратушний, якого посадили під домашній арешт за участь в акції до дня нарождення Стерненка 20 березня (коли був розмальований фасад ОП), розповів Depo.ua, як йому живеться під арештом, коли він сподівається з нього…
Про проблеми ШІ в пошукових системах і про метадані
Perhaps the bigger illusion is that when you search with Google you are somehow searching the sum total of human knowledge. Of course, you aren't. The accumulated knowledge of human civilisation is still mostly in books. Humanity wrote books for thousands of years and has only written web pages for a few decades. When you search, you are really just searching the sum total of things that people have put, and managed to keep, on the web since about 1995. Perhaps this is one reason why commercial "content sites" appear often in searches: they put a lot of stuff on the web.
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A general pattern seems to be that Artificial Intelligence is used when first doing some new thing. Then, once the value of doing that thing is established, society will find a way to provide the necessary data in a machine readable format, obviating (and improving on) the AI models.
I'm sure there's someone out there working tirelessly to perfect all the disparate technologies - computer vision, control systems, depth perception, etc - required in order for a Tesla to successfully navigate a McDonald's drive through. Just as they get it sorted and demonstrate its utility, McDonalds will probably just calculate and provide those routes as public information. After all, why bother with the maths and machine vision when you can just write it down in an XML file?
Perhaps the bigger illusion is that when you search with Google you are somehow searching the sum total of human knowledge. Of course, you aren't. The accumulated knowledge of human civilisation is still mostly in books. Humanity wrote books for thousands of years and has only written web pages for a few decades. When you search, you are really just searching the sum total of things that people have put, and managed to keep, on the web since about 1995. Perhaps this is one reason why commercial "content sites" appear often in searches: they put a lot of stuff on the web.
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A general pattern seems to be that Artificial Intelligence is used when first doing some new thing. Then, once the value of doing that thing is established, society will find a way to provide the necessary data in a machine readable format, obviating (and improving on) the AI models.
I'm sure there's someone out there working tirelessly to perfect all the disparate technologies - computer vision, control systems, depth perception, etc - required in order for a Tesla to successfully navigate a McDonald's drive through. Just as they get it sorted and demonstrate its utility, McDonalds will probably just calculate and provide those routes as public information. After all, why bother with the maths and machine vision when you can just write it down in an XML file?
calpaterson.com
We were promised Strong AI, but instead we got metadata analysis
How simple structured data trumps clever machine learning
Путін написав статтю, голова українського інституту національної пам'яті йому відповів.
(Є версія татарською мовою)
(Є версія татарською мовою)
УІНП
Про історичну єдність в тюрмі народів
Володимир Путін давно і старанно працює над власним образом. Йому здається, що замало бути президентом найбільшої за площею держави. Він хоче виглядати лідером...
Роки йдуть, а я не перестаю дивуватись історії, як Агенти Змін зробили плакати для метро на кожен день року.
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Здоровий глузд
Дизайн-брутфорс
Під час роботи над плакатами про ремонт у метро постала задача: як можна зробити так, щоб у метро самостійно могли робити плакати, коли їм потрібно бо ремонт може бути у будь-який день, але при цьому проконтролювати, щоб початковий дизайн…
Під час роботи над плакатами про ремонт у метро постала задача: як можна зробити так, щоб у метро самостійно могли робити плакати, коли їм потрібно бо ремонт може бути у будь-який день, але при цьому проконтролювати, щоб початковий дизайн…
Ми ж, як виглядає по тридцяти роках все більш повного розвою української мови, досі намагаємось українізуватися інструментами, створеними для зросійщення.
Остап Українець знов про місцеві діалекти.
Остап Українець знов про місцеві діалекти.
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Антиросійська українська
Одним із найпопулярніших нині підходів до української мови є антиросійськість, що вимагає від української бути повною і послідовною протилежністю російській
Шраєр про те, як у Лєвіна не виходить зробити нову гру
During a panel discussion a few years ago, Levine explained the final act of his process. “In almost every game I’ve ever worked on, you realize you’re running out of time, and then you make the game,” he said. “You sort of dick around for years, and then you’re like, ‘Oh my god, we’re almost out of time,’ and it forces you to make these decisions.”
former employees joked about engaging in Kenception, a reference to the film by Christopher Nolan in which Leonardo DiCaprio infiltrates a person’s dreams and plants an idea so that the target thinks he came up with it himself
A persistent tension at Ghost Story, employees say, is between the type of game they set out to make and the kind Levine was used to directing. He wanted to see every moment of the story unfold on screen and fine-tune each one. But the narrative Lego concept made Levine’s cinematic approach impossible to apply because stories would change so much based on player decisions.
During a panel discussion a few years ago, Levine explained the final act of his process. “In almost every game I’ve ever worked on, you realize you’re running out of time, and then you make the game,” he said. “You sort of dick around for years, and then you’re like, ‘Oh my god, we’re almost out of time,’ and it forces you to make these decisions.”
former employees joked about engaging in Kenception, a reference to the film by Christopher Nolan in which Leonardo DiCaprio infiltrates a person’s dreams and plants an idea so that the target thinks he came up with it himself
A persistent tension at Ghost Story, employees say, is between the type of game they set out to make and the kind Levine was used to directing. He wanted to see every moment of the story unfold on screen and fine-tune each one. But the narrative Lego concept made Levine’s cinematic approach impossible to apply because stories would change so much based on player decisions.
Forwarded from xkcd українською
Програми для виборів
Є багато дуже розумних людей, що натхненно працюють над криптографічними протоколами голосувань. Ми повинні фінансувати і заохочувати їх, а також проводити вибори за допомогою паперових бюлетенів, допоки всі, хто зараз працює в цій сфері , не підуть на пенсію.
Germany and the Germans
Промова Томаса Манна в Америці після кінця другої світової. Відповідей там не знайти, але на майбутнє збережу.
Промова Томаса Манна в Америці після кінця другої світової. Відповідей там не знайти, але на майбутнє збережу.
HathiTrust
Germany and the Germans [by] Thomas Mann.
https://time.com/6160347/ukrainians-blame-russians-for-war/
Dmytro explained how, in 2005 and 2006, he’d traveled to Russia and trained their dissidents in the strategies and tactics of non-violent resistance. So why had those dissidents failed in Russia? “The problem is cultural,” he said. “Russian culture expects a single leader. Other societies are flatter. They are not vertical, like Russia. Every time the Russians create a movement it evolves into a vertical organization, one with a boss on the top. Look at Navalny. He could have created a great anti-corruption movement, but instead a vertical organization was built around him. I tried to teach Russians to build decentralized networks, but always they built corporations with a boss on the top and officers in the regions. Once the guy on the top is detained and once the regional offices are raided, the organization is stopped.”
Dmytro explained how, in 2005 and 2006, he’d traveled to Russia and trained their dissidents in the strategies and tactics of non-violent resistance. So why had those dissidents failed in Russia? “The problem is cultural,” he said. “Russian culture expects a single leader. Other societies are flatter. They are not vertical, like Russia. Every time the Russians create a movement it evolves into a vertical organization, one with a boss on the top. Look at Navalny. He could have created a great anti-corruption movement, but instead a vertical organization was built around him. I tried to teach Russians to build decentralized networks, but always they built corporations with a boss on the top and officers in the regions. Once the guy on the top is detained and once the regional offices are raided, the organization is stopped.”
Time
Ukrainians Don't Blame Just Putin For the War. They Blame Russians.
Some claim that this is only Putin's war, but for many Ukrainians it's clear that Russians themselves are to blame
Ситуація з Пушкіном абсолютно ідентична. Обговорюючи його присутність у нашому міському просторі, ми передовсім повинні замислитись про те, що саме ця присутність нам оповідає. В більшості випадків — що тут була русня, котра дрочила на Пушкіна і заміняла вивчення світової культури одноманітною русистикою, через що значна частина літературознавчих катедр по всій Україні ніяк не навчиться визирати за межі поезії серебрянного века, бо нічого іншого викладачі в педі не знали.
Остап Українець про деколонізацію
Остап Українець про деколонізацію
site.ua
Що таке деколонізація
За вісім років багато хто встиг зрозуміти, що таке декомунізація і навіщо вона взагалі треба. Радянська ідеологія працювала за цілком релігійними стратегіями...